I might have presented for the edification of the "hater" of poetry the renowned description of the Mona Lisa by Pater in his essay on Leonardo da Vinci in The Renaissance.
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell
He it was that spoke of Wagner as a musical impostor, and of the grinning woman in every canvas of Leonardo da Vinci.
"Melomaniacs"
James Huneker
This system of the application of political science as well as of military science, of course, was sound, save for a temperamental error: the lack of sufficient imagination to realize the unknown quantity of chance, the inevitable mistake of military scientists who are loath to admit the artist to their counsels, exemplified by men of genius, such as Napoleon and Leonardo da Vinci, who were both mathematicians and artists.
"Witch-Doctors"
Charles Beadle